Romanticism - Jacob Van, Hannah, Juliana

  • 1798

    William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish “Tintern Abbey” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” which are in the book Lyrical Ballads
  • 1798

    Lyrical Ballads is a reflection of the themes that most of the writers wrote during this period
  • 1799

    British diplomats assemble Second Coalition hoping to drive Napoleon from power in France
  • 1803

    U.S. president Jefferson buys Louisiana Territory from France
  • 1805

    British fleet defeats Napoleon’s navy in the Battle of Trafalgar off the Spanish Coast
  • 1807

    British slave trade abolished
  • 1808

    U.S. abolishes slave trade
  • 1812

    Lord Byron wins fame with the first two sections of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
  • 1812

    Britain fights United States in the War of 1812
  • 1815

    British and Prussian armies defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
  • 1818

    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein published anonymously
  • 1819

    “Peterloo Massacre” - 11 killed in St. Peter’s Field, Manchester
  • 1823

    Lord Byron joins Greek war for liberation from Turks
  • 1824

    Lord Byron dies at 36 of a fever